Is fresh fruit seriously not that great for us, or do people just eat too much of them?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t eat potatoes and bananas because I’ve been maintaining a major weight loss my whole life. I am one of the very rare people actually successful at maintaining a loss so I’m not really all that impressed with what other cultures do. People in other cultures also fail to maintain serious (60lb+) weight losses.

You were born 60 lbs overweight, and solved that problem by not eating bananas? That sounds like a specific kind of medical issue that requires specialized intervention.

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Anonymous wrote:When 3rd world countries Receive seeds from the US in the form of aid, the quality of the produce changes. The rice which is making rural Bangladesh gain substantial weight is being produced by Monsanto’s and the like. Their digestive system is not used to the genetically modified seeds and thus cannot process them. This is exactly the reason why so many people who come tomorrow live/work in the US put on large amounts of weight in a short period of time (including professional dancers who always watch what they put in their mouth).

No totally wrong.

PP who brought up Bangladesh originally (and sorry if that derailed the thread), but I don't think this is true at all! If anything genetic modification makes rice and other grains healthier because they require fewer pesticides and thus less post-harvest treatment like parboiling which reduces the nutritional content. If there are any scientific studies related to genetic modification and obesity please share as I am really curious!

[Anonymous]

Read it: https://foodandnutrition.org/blogs/student-scoop/bananas-bad-3-myths-debunked/

And go enjoy a healthy banana.

[Anonymous]

I am very health conscious and do not worry about my intake of natural sugar (sugar in carrots, tomatoes, bananas, berries, etc.). I only pay attention to the ADDED sugar in processed foods.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t eat potatoes and bananas because I’ve been maintaining a major weight loss my whole life. I am one of the very rare people actually successful at maintaining a loss so I’m not really all that impressed with what other cultures do. People in other cultures also fail to maintain serious (60lb+) weight losses.

well, they're not 60+lb overweight to begin with so maybe you should be impressed at their ability to not get fat in the first place

As a french Parisian woman who saw what me and my friends eat to be skinny: indeed I wouldn’t eat a banana every day. But I would mostly avoid the crazy juicing trend : I would think eating 1 or 2 fruits a day is perfectly fine if you never had any weight issue.

That being said about “other cultures”: traditionally women over 30 don’t weigh 120 pounds. The traditional diet of any country would give you a much curvier standard, not fat but the easy maintenance weight on a traditional french/italien/Spanish diet would put most 5”5 30 year old woman at 140-150 pounds easy. Let’s not romanticize it too much. Nowadays we want t look like size 0 athletes, there is nothing traditional about that. Back to my Parisian friends: they simply don’t eat as much, I think some of you would have a hard time imagining how much smaller the food quantities are. If they eat a big meal they barely touch a carrot at the next. No Miracle

[Anonymous]

Eat green bananas and the sugar intake will be less

I hope this isn't why stores often only have green bananas available, a trend I really don't like!